The ‘Urbit for Normies’ post[0] and the HN discussion[1] (which unfortunately predominantly talks about the ‘normie’ in the title).
A Twitter thread[2] which tries to explain what Urbit is is mentioned in the HN discussion.
I personally explain it like this:
People can interact with anyone on the urbit network, just like currently anyone ‘can’ setup an email server on my own computer and interact with anyone other on the email network. The difference is that Urbit IDs have a price — so one can’t make a thousand email addresses and spam everyone, and that Urbit’s protocol is based on executable code — which means one can execute Nock(something like WASM) to get the data, not just plain text (like the web).
The ‘Urbit for Normies’ post[0] and the HN discussion[1] (which unfortunately predominantly talks about the ‘normie’ in the title).
A Twitter thread[2] which tries to explain what Urbit is is mentioned in the HN discussion.
I personally explain it like this:
People can interact with anyone on the urbit network, just like currently anyone ‘can’ setup an email server on my own computer and interact with anyone other on the email network. The difference is that Urbit IDs have a price — so one can’t make a thousand email addresses and spam everyone, and that Urbit’s protocol is based on executable code — which means one can execute Nock(something like WASM) to get the data, not just plain text (like the web).
[0]: https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-for-normies/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22858154
[2]: https://twitter.com/ianbicking/status/1249862161758916609